Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (58 mails)

["Duncan Mac-Vicar P." <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Bernhard Rosenkränzer wrote:
> Hi,
> with the patches to sat-solver and libzypp I've posted last night and
> earlier today, zypper seems to work with rpm5 -- I could successfully
> uninstall a library and everything that depends on it.
>
> Now I'm going to make our repositories compatible with zypper -- but I
> couldn't find a lot of documentation on how to do that on the server side.
> Looking at the download.videolan.org repository listed as an example in
> http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage, I see it uses a .repo and a .ymp file
> for its metadata -- but wouldn't just dumping a solv file in the
> repository, generated with "rpms2solv *.rpm" do the trick without having to
> do a conversion on the fly?
>
> If .repo+.ymp is indeed the way to go, what would I use to autogenerate a
> ymp file from the packages?
> If a .solv file is the way to go, what other files are needed and what is
> the best directory layout? solv file in the top level directory with
> i586/x86_64/src/... directories below it?
>   
As explained on irc, just use createrepo from yum: createrepo dirwithrpms/

libzypp does not download solv files yet.

Duncan

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